Sunday, April 28, 2019

PLATT - CURATED news

HEALTH CARE
ObamaCare Is Popular Because It Failed
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Keep the Government out of the Grieving Process 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/supreme-court-case-funeral-home-cross-dressing-employee/

Even George Washington May Be Erased From Our Past
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

ENVIRONMENT
Concerned About Food Waste? Study Finds Meal Kits May Be Greener Than Grocery Shopping
https://www.ecowatch.com/meal-kits-environmental-impact-2635612047.html

China's recycling ban has sent America's plastic to Malaysia. Now they don't want it -- so what next?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/asia/malaysia-plastic-recycle-intl/index.html

TWILIGHT ZONE
Aliens are interbreeding with humans to create a new hybrid species that will save our planet, claims Oxford lecturer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6965747/Aliens-interbreeding-humans-create-hybrid-species-save-planet-lecturer-claims.html

DEFENSE
F-35 Program
https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1121519323447582720?s=17

RUSSIAGATE
Deputy AG: Obama Admin Didn't Tell Public 'Full Story' On Russia; 'Someone' Selectively Leaked Classified Info
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46471/deputy-ag-obama-admin-didnt-tell-public-full-story-james-barrett?utm_medium=email&utm_content=042719-news&utm_campaign=position1

*******GATE
Texts between the FBI's Strzok and Page draw investigator focus
https://news.yahoo.com/texts-between-fbis-strzok-page-221602442.html

TRUMPGATE
How the Trump-Congress subpoena fight is likely to play out 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/bump042619.php3

POLITICS
Meet the 2020 spouses who could make history
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/440908-meet-the-2020-spouses-who-could-make-history

Chasten Buttigieg emerges as Mayor Pete's secret weapon
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440907-chasten-buttigieg-emerges-as-mayor-petes-secret-weapon

Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 ??? and it won't end well this time either
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-2020-060012048.html

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-george-washington-may-be-erased-from-our-past-11556317237?emailToken=bcea3fb8a4cc94b44e9d29dadc9f8acbjwtK9TidAq3zuuvj0SXZYB5VoI7aiQ+2qksMIGzCgQNM3CUlrvofbGFn6NXqJOgZLVT1Ut0ZxAE0JIdH7sqXxkok8+gsS4pDFeCPvrJwg/I%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Even George Washington May Be Erased From Our Past

A mural in San Francisco, which dates from 1936, is assailed because it ???traumatizes students.???

April 26, 2019 6:20 p.m. ET
A San Francisco mural has become the latest high-profile target of self-appointed censors who want to erase both history and art of which they disapprove. ???Life of Washington,??? a Works Progress Administration epic depicting scenes of America???s first president across 1,600 square feet, has been on display at a local school since 1936. Yet local activists and bureaucrats have decided its time has gone.
The president of San Francisco???s Board of Education is among the mural???
Instead of hiding history, let???s work to remember it more fully, warts, triumphs and all. The past, it has often been said, is a foreign country. We ought to know it better.
Mr. Bordewich is a historian and author of ???The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government.???
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ObamaCare Is Popular Because It Failed

Only corporate America can save the U.S. from drowning in wasteful health-care costs.

April 26, 2019 6:20 p.m. ET

An ObamaCare logo on the door of an insurance agency in Miami, Jan. 10, 2017.
 Photo: rhona wise/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
ObamaCare is finally popular with the American people according to a variety of polls, and it???s instructive to understand why. The doing is Donald Trump???s and the Republicans???, and not in a way that made ObamaCare a sensible program.

Saturday, April 27, 2019

PLATT - Curated News

One country, one system, &c. 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/hong-kong-notre-dame-tiger-woods-more/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-26&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

GENERAL INTEREST

Muscle memory: Stunning collection of 110 vintage American muscle cars, including a 1978 Pontiac 'Smokey and the Bandit-Style' Trans AM, will be auctioned in the fall after being hidden for 40 years
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6962121/Collection-110-vintage-muscle-cars-revealed-Iowa-ahead-auction.html

Selfie-Taking Tourists Crushing Tulips; Dutch Growers Fight Back
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/selfie-taking-tourists-crushing-tulips-dutch-growers-fight-back?pl=pl-the-latest

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week???s Headlines (10 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/26/briefing/26weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190426&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

How to clear your inbox in MINUTES: Twitter user wins praise over her 7 step guide on how to delete hundreds of unread emails with just a few clicks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6963153/Twitter-user-wins-praise-7-step-guide-delete-hundreds-unread-emails.html

ENVIRONMENT
London Marathon: How do you reduce the environmental impact?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48064102

SCIENCE
Ice-proof coating for big structures relies on a 'beautiful demonstration of mechanics'
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190425143705.htm

HERPETOLOGY
Some of the world's most unexpectedly dangerous and endangered animals: Stunning images reveal the piercing eyes of the albino alligator, the Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko and the luminous belly of the Purple Harlequin toad
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6958581/Stunning-Images-showcase-worlds-endangered-animals.html

TECHNOLOGY
Siri, where are your manners? Hilarious gallery captures the virtual assistant's VERY cheeky comebacks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6954981/Owners-Apple-gadgets-reveal-amusing-responses-theyve-received-talking-Siri.html

FOREIGN POLICY
Russia ready to discuss nuclear treaty with China, US
https://nypost.com/2019/04/26/russia-ready-to-discuss-nuclear-treaty-with-china-us/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Trump tells NRA he's pulling US from arms treaty
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440846-trump-tells-nra-hes-pulling-us-from-arms-treaty?userid=288549

DEFENSE
Kill a 'Raptor': How to Shoot Down an F-22 Stealth Fighter
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/kill-raptor-how-shoot-down-f-22-stealth-fighter-54257

SLAM - America's Big Stick & Doomsday Weapon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHONQAMV48&feature=youtu.be

LAW AND THE COURTS
'This smells, big time': Judge rips Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx's office for CHARGING a woman with filing a false police report after letting Jussie Smollett walk free for a more 'egregious' offense
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6962061/Judge-rips-Kim-Foxxs-office-double-standard-Jussie-Smollet.html

BIG BROTHER
Google knows everywhere you go ??? here's how to stop it from tracking you and delete the logs 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-knows-everywhere-you-go-%E2%80%94-heres-how-to-stop-it-from-tracking-you-and-delete-the-logs/ar-BBWhNbL?ocid=se

NKOR
Putin says North Korea willing to give up nukes in exchange for security guarantees 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/putin-says-north-korea-willing-to-give-up-nukes-in-exchange-for-security-guarantees-2019-04-25

POLITICS
Trump Loyalists Will Turn Their Backs on McGahn 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/donald-trump-don-mcgahn-republicans-must-pick-side/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-26&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The Happy Swedes Differ Markedly From Us
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

Dem race shows signs it could get nasty
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440744-dem-race-shows-signs-it-could-get-nasty?userid=288549

Campaign of ???anyone but Biden??? begins 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=9ed3af223215d979cf352389e8d233c1_5cc3207a_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190426&goTo=A01&artid=2&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Biden leads Trump by 6 points in first post-announcement poll
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/440845-biden-leads-trump-by-6-points-in-first-post-announcement-poll

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

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The Happy Swedes Differ Markedly From Us

Sweden has reduced the amount of resources devoted to government by 17 percentage points of GDP since the early 1990s; no other western nation has done anything remotely similar.

April 25, 2019 6:20 p.m. ET

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign stop at Aldo Leopold Middle School in Burlington, Iowa, April 6. 
Photo: John Lovretta/Associated Press
Gordon Downing (Letters, April 20) and Bernie Sanders need to refine their understanding of social democracy. In 1960, for example, Sweden had a similar level of GDP devoted to government as the U.S. had. For most of the parameters of success that social-democratic advocates point to, such as longevity and infant mortality, Sweden had even greater advantages in the past than it does today, suggesting that social democracy isn???

PLATT - MISC News

Why Zombie Politics Resonate 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/game-of-thrones-walking-dead-politics-conservative-interpretations/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

GENERAL INTEREST
Ode to the unsung professionals
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/barreca042519.php3

The best places to live in America in 2019 revealed ??? and Austin, Texas takes the top spot thanks to a low cost of living and strong job market
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6959397/The-10-best-cities-live-America-revealed.html

Socialism: The Only Cure For Western Prosperity
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2019/04/socialism-only-cure-for-western.html

How to watch the 3-hour ???Avengers: Endgame??? without a bathroom break 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-watch-the-3-hour-avengers-endgame-without-a-bathroom-break-2019-04-24

HEALTH
Deadly Kissing Bug Spreads to Delaware, CDC Confirms
https://www.ecowatch.com/kissing-bug-delaware-2635503319.html

Florida fisherman infected with flesh-eating bacteria 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/25/florida-fisherman-infected-with-flesh-eating-bacteria/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Why do Americans pay more for drugs? 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-do-americans-pay-more-for-drugs-2019-04-24

HUMOR
Portland (Everything You Need to Know) - Ultra Spiritual Life Ep. 154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI194enU8_0

PROGRESSIVES DERAILED
Dog-Walking Now Regarded as Racist
https://moonbattery.com/dog-walking-now-regarded-as-racist/

Wake Me When We???re Woke Enough
https://townhall.com/columnists/chrisstigall/2019/04/25/wake-me-when-were-woke-enough-n2545359?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/25/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ENVIRONMENT
Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/climate/trees-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Way We Talk About Geoengineering Matters 
https://www.ecowatch.com/geoengineering-union-of-concerned-scientists-2635260702.html

Giant Hole the Size of Kansas Appeared in Antarctica 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-giant_hole_the_size_of_kansas_appeared_in_antarcti-rnewsweek/category/news

NATIONAL SECURITY
Islamic Terrorism Remains The World???s Greatest Threat To Peace
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/22/islamic-terrorism-remains-the-worlds-greatest-threat-to-peace/

DEFENSE
Russia reveals its new submarine armed with nuclear-tipped drones capable of wiping out a city by triggering a tsunami
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6958611/Russia-reveals-new-submarine-armed-nuclear-tipped-drones.html

LAW AND ORDER
Disabled Oregon woman on mobility scooter arrested after leading police on low-speed chase
https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-oregon-woman-mobility-scooter-arrested-leading-police-223100964--abc-news-topstories.html

Bob Kerrey Is Right About Investigating FBI 
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

SOCIAL MEDIA
Fear Mark Zuckerberg???s Illiberal Impulses
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

IMMIGRATION
Liberals Tell Supreme Court How Illegal Immigration Increases Their Power
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2019/04/24/liberals-tell-supreme-court-how-illegal-immigration-increases-their-power-n2545294?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/25/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy
https://news.yahoo.com/mueller-investigation-driven-pious-hypocrisy-103026308.html

37 percent of Dems want Congress to move on from Russia-related Trump probes
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/440623-poll-37-percent-of-Dems-want-party-to-move-on-from-russia-related-trump-probes

POLITICS

Progressive group comes out against Biden's White House bid
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440597-progressive-group-comes-out-in-opposition-to-biden-candidacy

Biden Says He Asked Obama Not to Endorse Him 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/joe-biden-asked-barack-obama-not-to-endorse-him/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The media???s endless fawning over Pete Buttigieg won???t end well
https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/the-medias-endless-fawning-over-pete-buttigieg-wont-end-well/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Buttigieg draws new scrutiny, criticism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440556-buttigieg-draws-new-scrutiny-criticism

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fear-mark-zuckerbergs-illiberal-impulses-11556145953

Fear Mark Zuckerberg???s Illiberal Impulses

Social media???s censors are too illiterate to distinguish between Charles Manson and Charles Murray.

April 24, 2019 6:45 p.m. ET
Fisher Island, off the coast of Miami, is home to America???s richest ZIP Code by income. Residents enjoy the best of everything???the island is accessible only by yacht, and its private beach is covered in sand imported from the Bahamas. Fisher Island???s luxuries include intellectual stimulation. Its neighborhood social club recently invited Charlie Kirk, the young founder of Turning Point USA, to give a talk about his work, which largely consists of monitoring efforts to suppress the speech of conservatives on college campuses.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Notre-Dame ablaze, a Mongolian nomad and a storm in Kansas: Stunning entries to the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest keep on coming
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6954053/Stunning-entries-2019-National-Geographic-Travel-Photo-Contest-coming.html

Heavy flooding puts cars deep underwater at the Dallas airport
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heavy-flooding-puts-cars-deep-underwater-at-the-dallas-airport/ar-BBWfHNH?ocid=spartandhp

HEALTH
Babies and toddlers should spend NO time looking at screens and under-fives be limited to one hour a day, World Health Organization tells parents
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6955027/Babies-toddlers-spend-NO-time-looking-screens-said.html

Researchers at St. Mary's Hospital in London had been stumped how 10 British men had contracted a rare virus called human T-cell leukemia virus type 1.?? The men weren't intravenous drug users and hadn't had transfusions; none of them displayed any symptoms, but doctors had identified the virus through bloodwork.?? Dr. Divya Dhasmana, co-author of a study published March 13 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was eventually tipped off to the source of the infections when she saw scars on one of the men's back: The men participate in blood-shedding religious rituals, such as cutting or whipping themselves.?? 
The rituals the men reported include striking the forehead with a knife, then passing the knife to other men; or striking the back with a chain of blades.?? Dr. Dhasmana told the Associated Press that one infected man told her the blades were soaked in a bucket of antiseptic solution between uses, but that didn't prevent the virus' spread.?? "Our message is not 'Don't do it,'" said Dr. Dhasmana. "Our message is, 'If you do it, don't share equipment.'" [Associated Press, 3/13/2019] 

HEALTH CARE
Medicare for All Isn???t What Europe Offers
See the third Wall Street Journal article, below.

EDUCATION
AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump ???racist,??? questions his mental stability
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/ap-u-s-history-textbook-calls-trump-racist-questions-his-mental-stability.php

What Your College Isn???t Teaching
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

HISTORY
Almost everything you thought about the famed Fall of Saigon photo isn???t true
https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/new-book-reveals-truth-behind-this-famed-fall-of-saigon-photo/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BUSINESS
Demoted and sidelined: Google walkout organizers say company retaliated (Well duh !!!?? I wonder WTF these snowflakes expected.)
https://news.yahoo.com/culture-retaliation-google-employees-punished-222552257.html

ENVIRONMENT
Arctic's Melting Permafrost Will Cost Nearly $70 Trillion, Study Finds 
https://www.ecowatch.com/melting-permafrost-2635354893.html

Germany???s Dirty Green Cars
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

BIOLOGY
Lion Country- Tracking the elusive Mountain Lion - Texas Parks and Wildlife [Official]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMQ63G-5KsM

SCIENCE
Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/health/artificial-speech-brain-injury.html?emc=edit_ne_20190424&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=58935408_ne_20190424&searchResultPosition=1&te=1

ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient Guatemalans crafted massive sculptures using lightning and magnetism
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/ancient-guatemalans-crafted-massive-sculptures-using-lightning-and-magnetism?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6e08da53b2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WED0424_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcbff2e256-6e08da53b2-41356281

CYBER SECURITY
How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people's homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/nest_hackers.php3

IMMIGRATION
Dems charge ahead on immigration
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/440335-dems-charge-ahead-on-immigration

Dozens of Chilean 'tourists' tied to robbery spree in Southern California, police say 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/los_angeles_times-dozens_of_chilean_tourists_tied_to_robbery_spree_i-tca/category/news+

TRUMPGATE
Democratic Leadership Can???t Find Its Backbone on Impeachment
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/democratic-leadership-cant-find-its-backbone-on-impeachment/

Trump effort to stonewall faces thorny legal challenge
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440555-trump-effort-to-stonewall-faces-thorny-legal-challenge

DEMGATE
The Democrats Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/trump-collusion-charges-fade-democratic-lies-emerge/

Monty Python meets Mueller Dems 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/hewitt042419.php3

POLITICS
Kamala Harris Changes Tune About Letting Terrorists Vote In Less Than 1 Day
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46353/watch-kamala-harris-changes-tune-about-letting-ryan-saavedra

The Bakshish Primary 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/democratic-candidates-spending-promises-2020-campaign/


-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-dirty-green-cars-11556057770

Germany???s Dirty Green Cars

Berlin and Brussels stifle innovation by picking ???winners.???

April 23, 2019 6:16 p.m. ET

A Tesla Inc. Model 3 electric automobile recharges at a charging station in Amsterdam, April 1.
 Photo: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg News
Germany???s worst industrial scandal in recent memory arrived when auto companies fiddled with emissions tests to make diesel cars seem greener than they are. Now a new study suggests that electric cars touted as a diesel alternative also aren???t so great for the environment.xxxxxxx. Better to heed the report???s authors, who suggest allowing room for a range of possible auto technologies to blossom and compete.
Appeared in the April 24, 2019, print edition.
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What Your College Isn???t Teaching

Students explain what their university educations have been missing.

April 23, 2019 6:19 p.m. ET

Photo: 
Getty Images
Editor???s note: This Future View is about what colleges aren???t teaching. Next week, we???ll turn to Sen. Elizabeth Warren???s new policy proposal and ask: ???Should the government forgive student-loan debt???? Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before April 30. The best responses will be published that night.

IKEA Gives More Direction
We force undergraduates to take plenty of entry-level classes, but where???s the one on practical financial responsibility? How about a test on setting a budget? My concern extends to my classmates on the less quantitative side of campus, but even as a finance major, I could benefit from this sort of education. My coursework deals with hypothetical $100 million bond issues, but this doesn???t help me figure out how to negotiate my credit limit or how much of my income I should be comfortable spending on rent. If university education is going to saddle us with years of debt, can it at least come with an instruction manual? xxxxxxx
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-isnt-what-europe-offers-11556049826

Medicare for All Isn???t What Europe Offers

Regina E. Herzlinger and Bacchus Barua overlook the indispensable participants: physicians and surgeons. What if your physician or surgeon can???t afford to keep you?

April 23, 2019 4:03 p.m. ET
Regina E. Herzlinger and Bacchus Barua???s ???Europe???s Alternative to Medicare For All??? (op-ed, April 17) overlooks the indispensable participants: physicians and surgeons. What if your physician or surgeon can???t afford to keep you? There are four parts to the physician keystone of the ???Medicare for all??? machine not reflected in any other country on earth: U.S. physicians purchase their own education, which is not subsidized by government; U.S. physicians bear the significant financial burden of complying with state and federal mandates; physicians practicing in the U.S. are personally exposed to a shameless and unrestrained legal tort industry; Medicare rates do not reimburse enough of the overhead for a U.S. physician to sustain his or her practice. Medicaid, the ready implementation mechanism for Medicare for all, reimburses even less.xxxxxxx